Tracks & Challenges
Pick your battle.
MEGATHON is one weekend, one main race, and a dozen ways to win. Bring your own startup, build it for real, and aim it at whichever tracks fit. Most tracks stack — you can chase several at once with a single build.
Main Tracks
The headline prizes. Where the main-stage finals are won.
How you win
MEGATHON Startup Track
Most hackathons measure features. MEGATHON measures founders. Anyone can build something cool in 48 hours now — technical complexity isn't the bottleneck; whether you can build a company is. Judges score five things, and Execution Power carries the most weight: what you ship between Friday night and Sunday is the whole point.
The Friday-to-Sunday delta — what you actually built, shipped, and validated in 48 hours. A solo dev who shipped from zero beats a funded team that just polished a landing page.
Does it work? Is it well-built and genuinely AI-native — or a wrapper around an API call? Craft, design, and the quality of the idea.
Real market, real wedge, real path to revenue. Is this a business or a feature?
Your unfair advantage. Why this, why now, why you — and where it goes if it works.
Do you know how this actually reaches people? The go-to-market reflex that separates builders from founders.
How you win
Base44 — Prompt to Paid
Did you launch something real on Base44 and pull real traction over the weekend? That's the question. Co-presented with Tulip Ventures — for unruly, unreasonable founders.
Is this solving a real and meaningful problem?
How effectively did the team use Base44 to launch their product?
Real evidence of demand — signups, users, payments, customer interviews, partnerships, waitlist growth, engagement metrics.
A thoughtful launch, distribution, or acquisition strategy.
Can the team clearly say what they built, who it's for, why it matters, and why now?
How you win
Best Build with Devin
Build with the Devin API as an autonomous infrastructure layer — programmatically trigger and control Devin agents to solve real-world problems. Devin as the product, not just a tool.
How to enter
Devin commits in your repo history.
Judging criteria
Full judging criteria are being finalised with Cognition and shared before the weekend.
You can enter as many tracks as your build fits. The sponsor and special tracks each judge their own way — set with the partner and shared before the weekend.
Tracks
Plug in a platform and win on top of the main race — enter as many as you like.
Best Use of Cala
Skip the data — plug in Cala, get flown to Barcelona.
Use Cala as your public data source: structured, sourced JSON for any real-world entity. Opt-in, and combinable with any other MEGATHON challenge.
- To qualify
- A Cala API key in your production build.
- You win
- €1,000 cash, a hack trip to Barcelona, and a year of Cala on the house.
Vapi Voice Track
The best voice-first AI build.
Make voice the interface. Build a product with a live Vapi voice flow at its core.
- To qualify
- A Vapi voice flow live in your demo.
- You win
- Credits and hardware for the winner; credits for every builder.
Pixverse Creative Video
The best creative AI video shipped at MEGATHON.
Tell your story in motion. Create the standout creative AI video of the weekend, made in Pixverse.
- To qualify
- A team video built in Pixverse.
- You win
- A named cash prize, Pixverse credits, and an ambassador slot.
Pixverse Creative Product
The best creative product built on Pixverse.
Build a real product with Pixverse in the core workflow — generative agents, video-first apps, creative tooling. A working product, not just a demo reel.
- To qualify
- A working product with Pixverse in the core workflow.
- You win
- A named cash prize and Pixverse credits.
AnyBiz — Live Company Auction
Build a company worth buying.
Build a venture strong enough to go under the hammer. The standout companies get auctioned live on the main stage — real interest, real bids, in front of the room.
- To qualify
- Opt into the auction and submit your company by the Sunday deadline.
- You win
- A live auction moment on the main stage — and AnyBiz can run the full exit process for the standout companies.
Special Tracks
Side quests, honors, and the crowd favorite — open to everyone.
Wispr Flow — Prompt Roulette
Don't type it. Say it. Ship it.
A voice-first booth challenge: dictate your idea in 60 seconds with Wispr Flow — no typing allowed. Step up, take the prompt, talk it out.
- To qualify
- Complete the Prompt Roulette challenge at the booth.
- You win
- Prepaid cards for the top three; a month of Wispr Flow Pro for all who play.
Best Build-in-Public
Build in the open. Share the messy middle.
Build with the door open — public commits, your journey shared as it happens, the messy middle on display. The content heart of MEGATHON.
- To qualify
- Public commits and a posted journey by Sunday.
- You win
- Office space, a spot at TAG Hack Island, and a creative strategy session.